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It's also really not necessary to use #FFFFFF as white. Paper itself is not that shade.
by Sunspark 2y ago
It's also really not necessary to use #FFFFFF as white.
Paper itself is not that shade.
- recursive 2y agoIt's not really meaningful without defining lighting and color space. Have you ever seen ink on white paper that was lighter than the paper?
- scarab92 2y agoDisagree, white should be standardised as #FFFFFF so that it’s consistent between applications. Then users can adjust how they want “white” to appear by adjusting their screen settings.
- mbwgh 2y agoThus forcing a subpar default on everybody intentionally.
- scarab92 2y agoNo, #FFF is white, and it's up to the client to decide what white should look like. Arguing that we should use, say, #CCC for white, is like saying that instead of rating things out of a 100, you should rate them out of 70 instead. All you've done is narrow the scale.
- birksherty 2y agoNope. Nobody is talking about what colour is white, but contrast that is forced upon user that hurts eyes.
- rmgk 2y agoWhich direction of contrast is your problem? For me, the small contrast on pages like HN (in particular with any of the gray text) strains my eyes because it’s more effort for me to see the letters. But I also read a reasonable amount of PDFs (black on white) which is relatively comfortable on most of my monitors (LCDs with generally low brightness setting to have less light shine into my eyes). I think what I am saying is, I agree that what is comfortable depends on the user, so websites not moving off the defaults is better, because then users can configure what works for them. Addendum: The low contrast example on the article is very uncomfortable to read for me.
- watwut 2y ago#CCC is grey - one of many greys .